In this year's Art Cologne, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle will be presenting works by Helene Appel, Slawomir Elsner, Elger Esser, Toulu Hassani, Candida Höfer, Leiko Ikemura, Karin Kneffel, Daniel Knorr, Maximilian Rödel, Thomas Ruff, Elif Saydam, Thomas Struth, Florian Süssmayr, Thu-Van Tran and Chen Wei.

The exhibited artists deeply reflect the heart of the gallery’s cross-generational and cross-media program primarily focused on conceptual content with established as well as emerging artists. Founded in 1968, the gallery has been a forum for contemporary art that over the years has presented a great number of artists with their first solo exhibitions in Germany, or indeed their first solo exhibitions at all and has become an important driver for the general acceptance of Conceptual art, Photography, and Media art in Contemporary art. For more information, please visit www.galerie-schoettle.de or contact [email protected] About the gallery: The founding of Rüdiger Schöttle Gallery in Munich in 1968 marked the beginning of a forum of contemporary art that over the years has presented a great number of artists with their first solo exhibitions in Germany, or indeed their first solo exhibitions at all. The list includes such artists as Jenny Holzer, Günther Förg, Dan Graham, Jeff Wall, Rodney Graham, James Coleman, Karin Kneffel, Andreas Gursky, Thomas Struth, Katharina Fritsch, Thomas Ruff or Anri Sala. One of the focal points of the gallery's activities during the 1970s was the presentation of Concept Art with artists like Douglas Huebler, Daniel Buren, Ian Wilson, Lawrence Weiner and On Kawara. Conceptual content, the questioning of the correlation between art and reality and the reflection upon the context of art are to this day the common, cross-generation and cross-media link between the artists represented by Rüdiger Schöttle Gallery. The compositions of Martin Creed or Goshka Macuga follow this tradition. In the 1980s and 1990s, the owner, curator and essayist Rüdiger Schöttle pursued a program that opened up the partial return of the narrative and the re-evaluation of images. Since the 1980s the Düsseldorf School of Photography has been one of the emphases of the gallery program. Artists like Thomas Ruff, Candida Höfer and Thomas Struth are regularly exhibited and were complemented by the young Chinese artist Chen Wei. Besides cultivating a program of longstanding artists, Rüdiger Schöttle Gallery has a decisive interest in exploring new approaches in the contemporary art scene and regularly presents works of young emerging artists such as Toulu Hassani, Thu Van Tran or Elif Saydam.